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Can you identify these characters named Lawrence or Laurence? In which books do they appear and who are the authors?

1 ,Jarndyce was visited by this handsome old man, with his tame canary sitting on his shoulder. He had been the loudest, heartiest boy in the world, Jarndyce said of him admiringly. Now he was litigating over a right of way with his neighbour, Sir Leicester.

2 The confidant of two young Italian lovers and confessor of the girl, this churchman secretly married them. He suggested a means of escape when she was threatened with marriage to a count, but it proved disastrous.

3 At a real-life reunion after leaving their home in Corfu, his family united in objecting to his younger brother, Gerald, writing another book about them. "You've no idea what damage that Dickens-like caricature did to my literary image," said the older brother. But Gerald now wrote about how his brother